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will the external cameras finally be available to apps? they're crowing about mixed reality, but previous quest can only do passthrough - even the most basic use of the external cameras is extremely limited and requires workarounds.


They announced a passthrough API for next year, so yay to that. That's def going to open up even move possibilities.


Yes current generation can only do pass through, the app cannot see the cameras to do any sort of computer vision on your environment. Think running a real-time style GAN on your external cameras - can’t do it with pass through. All you can do is overlay stuff in the world, with extremely limited information on what you are overlaying it on.


Quest 3 has had full passthrough AR for a year now


My understanding is that the app cannot access the pass through video for privacy reasons, only decide which parts to occlude with overlays




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